During the just-concluded NFL meetings in Palm Beach, Florida, a report from The Athletic indicates that the Kansas City Chiefs have become the favorite to play the Los Angeles Chargers on Friday, September 5, at Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Designated as a home contest for Los Angeles, it will be the second game of the 2025 season.
“On playing international games, we’re willing to do it whenever the opportunity presents itself,” Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt told reporters on Monday. “We don’t have a lot of control over that, except periodically with whatever the [international] rotation of the league is at where we can be the home team.
“We make the league aware every year that we would be delighted to play [internationally], whether as a home team or as an away team. We hope, at some point, we’ll get picked back up.”
Kansas City’s last international game was in Week 9 of 2023, when they hosted the Miami Dolphins at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany.
The official announcement of the Chargers’ Brazil opponent is likely to be made well before the rest of the NFL schedule is released in mid-May.
It will be the first of seven NFL matchups to be played outside the United States this season, up from the previous high of five international games.
Three teams will host games in London. The Cleveland Browns and New York Jets will each have matchups at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, while the Jacksonville Jaguars will have a contest at Wembley Stadium.
The Indianapolis Colts will call Berlin’s Olympiastadion home for the league’s fourth-ever German matchup.
Spain and Ireland will have their first NFL games, with the Miami Dolphins hosting a contest at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and the Pittsburgh Steelers playing a home game at Dublin’s Croke Park.